April 2013

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

The 1.12.5 release updates our OpenJDK 6 support on the 1.12.x branch to include the latest security updates. We recommend that users of this branch upgrade to the latest release as soon as possible. The security fixes are as follows:

Happy hacking!

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

This release updates our OpenJDK 7 support to include the latest security updates. We recommend that users upgrade to the latest release from the
appropriate branch as soon as possible. The security fixes are as follows:

Happy hacking!

It seems our latest release, 1.11.10, unwittingly depends on the latest glibc, 2.17, as this is the only one that provides the ELF definition for AArch64 in /usr/include/elf.h. This will lead to some systems failing on EM_AARCH64.

We already have a bug (PR1402) for this issue and fix. We’ll look at getting an update out for it as soon as we’ve given it a bit more testing, in case there are any further issues. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

A new security release, 1.11.10. This contains the following security fixes: